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Posted on 08/12/2013 6:36:36 AM PDT by rover3
Prohibitions on the carrying of knives in general, or of particular knives, are unconstitutional. There is no knife which is more dangerous than a modern handgun; to the contrary, knives are much less dangerous. Therefore, restrictions on the carrying of handguns set the upper limit for restrictions on knife carrying. Read the rest here http://westernshootingjournal.com/editors-blog/are-knives-considered-arms-protected-by-the-second-amendment/
/johnny
My Wisconsin CC license authorizes knifes other that switchblades or butterfly knives.
Why are switchblades illegal?
It dates back to the 50s I think when they were the favorite weapons of PR street gangs.
Most Switchblades I have seen were junk. I have a KBAR knife that is 100 times deadlier
Oh good God. That’s why it STATES “arms”, not “firearms”.
This is where the firearm debating gets us. That 2A is about firearms and not anything else. Forgotten is that “arms” means weapons and that could be anything. Yes, anything.
As to less dangerous, to whom? If you get the knife in a couple times, blade cuts are harder to patch up than clean holes. This is why serious bayonets were banned long ago (although they shouldn’t be). It’s harder to knife someone, but dangerous when done.
They can ave my Wusthof santoku when they pry it from my cold, dead hand!
If not they should be. I’m NEVER without a blade on me.
Of course knives are legally considered arms; hold up a bank with a knife and you’ll be charged with armed robbery.
"Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans." -- Tench Coxe 1788
If you listen closely, you’ll hear the laughter of Klingons, mocking that puny bat’leth.
The word “arms” is in “firearms”.
Came here to post exactly that quote.
Knives, swords, axes, polearms, chainsaws, artillery pieces, aircraft carriers, Cessna 152 with wing-mounted .50 cals, heavy rocks, BB guns...
If it could serve a purpose in personal, or National, defense... Then it is included.
The mind is the weapon, everything else is accessories.
However, you can hug your children because of nuclear arms.
Looks close to a Klingon d’k tahg.
Speaking of the Star Trek-inspired dagger, quite a few knife/sword stores by me carry those.
I don’t know about knives, but the tomahawk was a common weapon used by the colonists.
Draw a knife in a conflict and it is legally considered the same as a gun,
so it should fall under the same auspices as a handgun in legal protection as well.
I always wondered why the butterfly knife was SOOO scary that it had to be outlawed.
You can open a lockblade with a thumb knob faster and more “sure” than you can a butterfly.
Ask David Bowie...
The Bowie Knife was created by James Black and popularized by Colonel Jim Bowie.
David Bowie invented “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.”
David Bowie was christened David Robert Jones.
Ask a Sikh or a Ghurka (or those who have been despatched by them in hand-to-hand knife combat).
LOL Wrong Bowie? Whoops.
Or (on some knives) you can diddle with the tension of the screws holding the knife together so that it will work by centrifugal force without touching the "thumb knob". This may be illegal in come locales(I think they call'em "gravity blades").
I pity the idiot who forces me to use my Kukri....
The last thing you see as your head falls to the ground.
I have completely abandoned folders. I have a collection that I’ve been selling lately - With my benchmade left over to open packages.
Yup. a $120 carton opener.
I used to collect folders while working in IT, and reviewing knife fighting techniques, as well as signing up at a few defense classes. I always thought they had a place in my EDC.
Recently I’ve been practicing more bushcraft (Because the SHTF) and learned that nothing compares to a GOOD fixed blade.
And a sheath is just as tough to conceal as a folder.
I’m the same way. I have 2 tactical folders that I love, but I sold all of my folder collection.The fixed blade is far more dependable.I have been buying most of my knives from Budk
http://www.budk.com/product/Smith-&-Wesson-Outback-Kukri/158236.uts?#RateIt
I own 10 different Kukris from cheapo crap to real Nepal made handcrafted beauties.(scary sharp!) I love these weapons.
Ayo Ghurkali!
Expertise with the knife is the last part of the curriculum of self-defense as it puts one the closest to the ... enemy.
1887 Webster`s Dictionary:
to bear, bear v.t., 1. to support and move; or carry 2. To be equipped, furnished, or marked with; to have as belonging, distinguishing, identifying, or characterizing; as TO BEAR A SWORD, an inscription,, a title, a good reputation or an evil look, 7. To be directed; to be pointed; as, to plant guns to bear upon a trench
“I’m NEVER without a blade on me.”
Same here, having grown up on a farm in central Texas I’ve been carrying a knife since probably five or six, can’t really remember. One incident I do remember though which exhibits the cultural shift in the US over the past 40 or five years comes to mind; when I was in the third grade I was out on the playground during recess and another boy and I were playing a game known as “stretch” which each of us would take a turn throwing our pocket knives to a location where if it stuck in the dirt the other boy had to place a foot against it. This went on till one or the other mis-cued. At which point the loser would have to forfeit his knife to the winner. Well, we were observed playing this game by the lay ground teacher and were promptly taken inside and ad our britches busted - not for endangering each other with a knife - no indeedie, our punishment was for gambling! Well, the times have changed for sure. :)
A Second Front on the Second Amendment
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-second-front-on-second-amendment.html
bttt
But boy he could play guitar!
If you outalw X only Outlaws will have X......
Where as X is any object, idea, concept, etc etc.....
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